Warren Beatty Quotes

'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.

It's a great game, and it's done great things for me and my family, but the bottom line is when I'm done, I want to be able to walk away and be everything I need to be for my family.

Money shouldn't be the driver for where you spend your time.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

The offers are plenty. I'm just taking time and only working on those projects that excite me.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.